Gavin Hamilton
Military Person
– 1982
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Who was Gavin Hamilton?
Captain Gavin John Hamilton MC was the Officer Commanding 19 Troop, D Squadron, 22 Special Air Service during the Falklands War in 1982. He was killed whilst behind enemy lines on West Falkland on 10 June 1982. Hamilton was a Green Howards officer before passing SAS selection and being attached to 22 SAS. He was the first posthumous recipient of the Military Cross and the only such recipient until the war in Afghanistan nearly twenty years later.
Before the Falklands, Hamilton had served in Cyprus, Belize and South Armagh in Northern Ireland.
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